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Nauru - Country Profiles

Constitution of Nauru.
Date of text: 1968 (11 March 2025)

Policies

National Social Protection Strategy 2022–2032.
Date of text: 01 May 2022
Nauru Climate Smart Agriculture Plan (NaCSAP) 2021-2025.
Date of text: 01 May 2021
National Multi-sectoral Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance for Nauru 2021-2025.
Date of text: 2021
Updated Nationally Determined Contribution.
Date of text: 2021
Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Date of text: 2015

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Agricultural Quarantine (Fees) Regulations (S.L No. 12 of 2015).
Date of text: 24 September 2015

Climate change

Environmental Management and Climate Change Act No. 34 of 2020.
Date of text: 23 October 2020
Environmental Management and Climate Change (Asbestos Management) Regulations 2024 (SL 32).
Date of text: 30 October 2024
Environmental Management and Climate Change (Notices) Regulations (SL No. 12 of 2021).
Date of text: 22 June 2021
Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SL No. 2 of 2025).
Date of text: 10 January 2025

Cultivated plants

Agricultural Quarantine Act 1999 (No. 5 of 1999).
Date of text: 08 October 1999
Plant and Animals Quarantine Regulations 2004.
Date of text: 03 September 2004
Larcency Act 1916 (6 and 7 Geo. 5, c. 50).
Date of text: 31 October 1916 (1998)
Plant & Animal Quarantine Regulations 2004.
Date of text: 24 July 2008
Agricultural Quarantine (Amendment) Act 2023.
Date of text: 07 June 2023

Disaster risk management

National Disaster Risk Management Act 2016 (No. 2 of 2017).
Date of text: 26 January 2017
Statute Law Revision Act 2011 - Part 2: Validation and Transitional Provisions (No. 8 of 2011).
Date of text: 15 April 2011
National Disaster Risk Management (Amendment) Act 2020.
Date of text: 2020

Environment

Environmental Management and Climate Change Act No. 34 of 2020.
Date of text: 23 October 2020
Ozone Layer Protection Act (No. 25 of 2017).
Date of text: 24 November 2017
Nauru Meteorology Services Act 2024 (No. 6 of 2024).
Date of text: 20 August 2024
Nuclear Test Ban 2014 (No. 327 of 2014).
Date of text: 27 February 2014
Litter Prohibition Act 1983 (No. 6 of 1983).
Date of text: 14 October 1983

Fisheries and aquaculture

Fisheries Management Act 2024 (No. 9 of 2024).
Date of text: 20 August 2024
Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture Act No. 12 of 2020.
Date of text: 04 June 2020
Fisheries Act (No. 18 of 1997).
Date of text: 13 June 1997
Nauru Fisheries and Marine Resources Authority Act 1997.
Date of text: 1997
Fisheries (PNA Third Implementing Arrangement) Regulations 2009.
Date of text: 2009

Food and nutrition

Food Safety Act (No. 4 of 2005).
Date of text: 02 August 2005
Food Safety (Prohibited Imports) (Repeal) Regulations 2025 (SL No.4 of 2025).
Date of text: 20 February 2025
Plant & Animal Quarantine Regulations 2004.
Date of text: 24 July 2008

Land and soil

Law of Property Act 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20).
Date of text: 09 April 1925 (1998)
Succession, Probate and Administration Act 1976 (Act No. 21 of 1976).
Date of text: 29 October 1976
Lands Act 1976 (Act No. 13 of 1976).
Date of text: 23 September 1976
Foreign Trusts, Estates and Wills Act 1972 (No. 7 of 1972).
Date of text: 17 February 1972
Custom and Adopted Laws Act 1971 (No. 11 of 1971).
Date of text: 05 January 1972

Livestock

Agricultural Quarantine Act 1999 (No. 5 of 1999).
Date of text: 08 October 1999
Plant and Animals Quarantine Regulations 2004.
Date of text: 03 September 2004
Statute Law Revision Act 2011 - Part 2: Validation and Transitional Provisions (No. 8 of 2011).
Date of text: 15 April 2011
Larcency Act 1916 (6 and 7 Geo. 5, c. 50).
Date of text: 31 October 1916 (1998)
Animals (Forms) Regulations 1982.
Date of text: 16 September 1982

Mineral resources and energy

Nauru Seabed Minerals Authority Act 2024 (No. 13 of 2024 ).
Date of text: 20 August 2024
Nauru Utilities Corporation (Amendment) Act 2016 (No. 7 of 2016).
Date of text: 29 January 2016

Sea

Ports And Navigation Act 2019.
Date of text: 20 December 2019
Vessel Registration Act 2024.
Date of text: 2024
Maritime Security Act 2021.
Date of text: 20 December 2019
Port Authority Act 2015 (No. 9 of 2015).
Date of text: 12 May 2015
Shipping Licences Act 2012 (No. 28 of 2012).
Date of text: 21 December 2012

Water

Nauru Utilities Corporation Act 2011 (No. 13 of 2011).
Date of text: 24 June 2011
Nauru Utilities Corporation Regulations, 2012 (SL No. 5 of 2012).
Date of text: 17 October 2012
Nauru Utilities Corporation (Amendment) Act 2016 (No. 7 of 2016).
Date of text: 29 January 2016

Wild species and ecosystems

National Heritage Act (No. 23 of 2017).
Date of text: 14 September 2017
Animals Act 1982 (Act No.6 of 1982).
Date of text: 23 August 1982
Wild Birds Preservation Ordinance 1937 (No. 14 of 1937).
Date of text: 30 November 1937
Statute Law Revision Act 2011 - Part WI of Schedule 1 – Amendment of the Wild Birds Preservation Ordinance 1937-1967 (No. 8 of 2011).
Date of text: 15 April 2011

Miscellaneous

Consumer Protection Act 2024 (No. 5 of 2024).
Date of text: 20 August 2024
Trademarks Act 2019.
Date of text: 12 July 2019
Nauru Small Business Enterprises Act 2025.
Date of text: 09 April 2025
Tourism Corporation Act (No. 2 of 2019).
Date of text: 22 March 2019
Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Act 2024 (No. 15 of 2024).
Date of text: 20 August 2024

International Agreements

Convention for the Conservations and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific.
Date of text: 05 September 2000
Federated States of Micronesia Arrangement for Regional Fisheries Access.
Date of text: 14 November 1994
Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, SPREP.
Date of text: 16 June 1993

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